The Seminar Series of the Department provides an occasion for staff members and students to share their ideas, views and research activities both with each other and with visiting social scientists. These seminars given by visiting scholars also provide an opportunity to expose staff members to current issues in the field and to exchange ideas with internationally known sociologists and anthropologists. In recent years, the Series featured such prominent scholars as Neil Smelser, Gianfranco Poggi, Marshall Sahlins, Claus Offe, and Jack Goody, among others.
Seminar Title |
Speaker |
Date & Time |
Globalisation and the Changing Social Contract between Science and Society |
Venni V. Krishna
Visiting Senior Research Fellow, Asia Research Institute, NUS, Singapore
Professor in Science Policy, School of Social Science, Jawaharlal Nehru University,
New Delhi
Editor, Science, Technology & Society (Sage Publications) |
Thur, 13 Nov 2008
3.00 - 4:30pm |
Understanding Later-Life Needs and Psychological Well-Being of the Elderly in Rural China: Relative Deprivation, Relative Abdundance and Village Development |
Deborah S. Lowry
Population Studies Center
University of Michigan |
Thur, 16 Oct 2008
3.00 - 4:30pm |
Variation in gender role attitudes across OECD countries |
Mandy Boehnke
Department of Sociology
University of Bremen |
Thur, 9 Oct 2008
3.00 - 4:30pm |
Making a ‘New’ ‘Cultural District’ in a World City: Seoul |
Mihye Cho
Department of Sociology
National University of Singapore |
Thur, 4 Sep 2008
3.00 - 4:30pm |
On the Margins of the Middle Class: Becoming Middle Class in Rural Eastern Indonesia |
R. H. Barnes
Asia Research Institute
National University of Singapore |
Thur, 3 Apr 2008
3:00 - 4:30pm |
| Migration, Education, and the Local Imaginary of "Multiculturalism" in Osaka, Japan |
Yuko Okubo
Department of Sociology
National University of Singapore |
Thur, 20 Mar 2008
3:00 - 4:30pm |
| When the Sun Rises: A Toraja Priest of the Ancestral Way |
Roxana Waterson,
Department of Sociology
National University of Singapore |
Thur, 13 Mar 2008
3:00 - 4:30pm |
